TELEGRAM TO S. V. MALYSHEV[1]

Published:Published in full in 1931 in LeninMiscellany XVIII.

      Published in part on September 18, 1918, inSaratovskaya Krasnaya GazetaNo. 164.

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17. VIII. 1918

SergeiMalyshevEkaterinograd (Ekaterinenstadt), Samara Gubernia

Congratulationson success. Telegraph urgently and
regularly how much has been collected and delivered to
Saratov, and when. It is particularly important not to attempt
too many things at once, but to collect in full all grain
surpluses first from one volost and to give it a huge bonus.
Telegraph fulfilment.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Malyshev,in his capacity of authorised agent of the Union of
Communes of the Northern Region, headed the expedition along
the Volga of mobile trading barges carrying goods for exchange
against grain. Lenin’s telegram was in reply to Malyshev’s report
on the successful purchase of grain. See also this volume,
Document 384.